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Revolutionary France
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revolutionary francerevolutionary france

The French Revolution of 1789 was followed by a century of upheaval, rebellion, and change. Napoleonic dictatorship, monarchical restoration, Second Republic, and Second Empire all rapidly succeeded one
 
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Lost Libraries - The Destruction of Great Book Collections ...
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Lost Libraries - The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since AntiquityLost Libraries - The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
 
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Tags: libraries, history, destruction, monastic, monarchical, Libraries, Collections